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Electroplating

AGM Acquires Advanced Hard Coatings Company Duralar

Duralar owns Emperion system for high-throughput deposition of ultrahard coatings on metal parts.

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Liquid Coating

Atotech Pretreatments Designed for Metal Substrates

Products available in variety of process options.

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Powder Coating

Carlisle Fluid Technologies Acquires Ecco Finishing

Ecco’s products are used in a variety of application settings, primarily in the automotive, ceramics, leather, wood and plastics industries.

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Anodizing

Cleaning, Pretreatment to Meet Medical Specs ISO 13485 or FDA 21 CFR820

Maximilian Kessler from SurTec explains new practices for industrial parts cleaning, metal pretreatment and decorative electroplating in the medical device industry.

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Anodizing

Dörken MKS Helps Petersglocke Bell of Cologne Cathedral Ring on High

Engineers apply the Delta-Protekt KL 170 RT to coat the mount.

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Electroplating

Electrocodeposition of MCrAlY Coatings for Advanced Gas Turbine Applications - 6th Quarterly Research Report

This NASF-AESF Foundation research project report covers the sixth quarter of project work (April-June 2019) on this AESF Foundation Research project at the Tennessee Technological University.

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Electroplating

Famis Celebrates 50 Years in Industrial Finishing

Family owned and operated, Miami-based industrial chemicals and finishes distributor provides sales, service and consulting to the industrial paint and finishing markets in Florida.

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Anodizing

Finishing Fluids for 3D Printed Parts

Choosing the correct binder jetting finishing fluids plays a key role in the success of 3D-printed products.

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Electroplating

Fixing Excessive Brightener Consumption From Dull Work In Alkaline Non-Cyanide Zinc

Although great strides have been made over the last 30 years in the development of alkaline non-cyanide zinc processes, Asterion’s Graham Torr says not all “modern” systems are created equal.

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Electroplating

George Koch and Divisions Provide Custom Surface Finishing Equipment

George Koch Sons, along with divisions PriceWalgren and Jessup Systems, designs, manufactures and installs custom surface finishing equipment for applications such as electrocoat, liquid/powder paint, plating, phosphate, anodizing and porcelain enamel.

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Liquid Coating

Hartford Finishing Acquired by MiddleGround Capital

Hartford is one one of the largest industrial powder coaters in the Midwest and also a provider of electrocoating, wet painting and assembly services.

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Anodizing

It’s Not Always the Seal Tank

When testing anodized aluminum for quality, poor anodize conditions result in weakened coatings and AAMA 611 test failures.

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Electroplating

LeHigh Research Yields Hardest, Thinnest Coatings

Professors net NSF GOALI award to study ultra wear-resistant nitride films

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Electroplating

Makeover Reaps Rewards for New Mexico’s Theta Plate

Shop worked with New Mexico Manufacturing Extension Partnership, a nonprofit that trains manufacturers in lean principles and value stream mapping.

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Electroplating

Michigan Plater Tackles Emissions With New Equipment

Elm Plating's coating line uses closed pollution control equipment To solve air issues.

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Electroplating

New Coating Process Provides Effective Protection for Brake Discs

Extreme High-speed Laser Material Deposition (EHLA) provides brake discs with an effective protection against wear and corrosion in a procedure that is both fast and economical.

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Anodizing

Northern Indiana Anodize Opens $8 Million Finishing Plant

NIA has 23 tanks that are 32 feet long to accommodate aluminum parts up to 28 feet in length, as well as 26 smaller tanks.

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Powder Coating

Powder Technology's CARC Powder Topcoat Approved by ARL

This latest product marks Powder Technology’s ninth ARL-approved powder coating.

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Mechanical Finishing

Precision Finishing Opens New Addition, Capabilities

A 40,000-square foot-finishing facility that was up and running in 2017 with new equipment, processes and capabilities from the previously constructed facility in 1955.

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Anodizing

Products Finishing Top Shops Executive Summit Planned for 2020

Owners and managers of plating, liquid and powder coatings shops to converge at singular conference to share best practices in peer-to-peer setting.

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Electroplating

Troubleshooting Chromium Conversion Coatings on Aluminum

This paper provides processors with an extensive troubleshooting tool when conversion coating failures are encountered.

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Anodizing

Valence Surface Technologies Sold to Investment Groups

ATL Partners and British Columbia Investment Management purchase Texas-based Valence.

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Voestalpine Eifeler Coatings Opens PVD Facility in Tennessee

This opening follows the company’s opening of their coatings facility in Walnut, California, in June. The company is headquartered in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Mechanical Finishing

Wheelabrator Skew Roll Machine Removes Rust, Scale

Cylindrical parts are conveyed through a blast machine on a specially designed skew roll-type material handling system. 

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